What is another word for vegetates?

Pronunciation: [vˈɛd͡ʒɪtˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Vegetates is a term commonly used to describe the state of inactiveness or lack of productive activity. Its synonyms include languishes, idles, stagnates, and decays. The term languishes implies a lack of energy or vitality, while idles suggests a lack of occupation or purpose. Stagnates refers to a lack of movement or progress, and decays suggests a decline or deterioration. Other synonyms for vegetates include festers, putrefies, and atrophies, all of which conveys a sense of deterioration and decay. Regardless of the specific synonym used, to vegetate is to exist without growth or improvement, indicating a need for change or transformation.

What are the hypernyms for Vegetates?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Vegetates

It suggests no more enterprises to the decrepitude of age, which vegetates along, drawing interest merely on the investment of its earlier enterprises.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Not being capable of elevating himself high enough or falling low enough to reign over the lives of men, he lives or rather vegetates with a keen feeling of his mediocrity, which makes him despair.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
Man never pauses; he goes his round, he vegetates until the appointed day when his Axe falls.
"Seraphita"
Honore de Balzac

Famous quotes with Vegetates

  • Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
    Cesare Pavese

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